Attack of the Killer Handbags

I recently finished filming a series of commercials for a world-famous fashion designer I’d barely heard of, and he gave me one of his company’s handbags as a parting gift. I thought, “Cool, whatever” and handed it to my wife, who immediately burst into apoplectic seizures so severe, I had to put my wallet in her mouth. What the fuck is going on? When did women become so obsessed with a wallet-carrying device? “Fifteen years ago a handbag was for an old lady,” Barney’s Creative Ambassador-at-Large Simon Doonan told me shortly after the incident. ...

Katharine Hepburn and the Tomboys Who Followed

It’s hard to open a fashion magazine or celebrity rag this year without reading tomboy-this or boyfriend cut-that. Twenty years ago, however, or even five, the word tomboy, ...

The Nerdiest President

Chester A. Arthur was known to have 80 pairs of pants in his closet at the White House and changed several times a day. His nicknames, “Elegant Arthur” and “The ...


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